Word: assisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...institutions being struck, agreed to rehire all strikers, including the dozen whose dismissal touched off the walkout. It did not agree to formal union recognition, which is forbidden by state laws covering public employees. But it did consent to a grievance procedure in which a union member can assist workers, and it approved an employee credit union that would allow a form of dues checkoff. As far as the union is concerned, these concessions amount to de facto recognition...
There is another tool which the City has at its disposal to assist in the provision of housing for low and moderate income families--urban renewal. In the past, urban renewal has often been a dirty work in our city and many others. But that need not be the case. Urban renewal provides a critical element in the process of providing more reasonably priced housing--it reduces the cost of assembling and preparing property for redevelopment or rehabilitation. There are new, more flexible renewal procedures such as Neighborhood Development Program and the advance availability of rehabilitation funds for future renewal...
Diane and I would not want to be thought of as leaving the church simoly because it is declining at an accelerating rate, or on a petty, personal ground-Bishop Myers' changing his mind about officiating (after telling us to invite the clergy who would assist him), when a fine priest, and a dear friend, was perfectly happy to marry us, acting under Bishop Myers' written judgment as to my canonical marriageability. We had sound reasons for leaving the church, but they are not the two you noted; nor would we want others to leave on such grounds...
...agitators off campus. The legislatures of Colorado, Oklahoma, Maryland and Tennessee have approved bills that apply private trespass rules to public campuses, or otherwise control the presence of nonstudents. Tennessee's law makes it a felony for nonstudents to enter school property "to incite, participate in, aid or assist a riot." Possible penalty: five years in the state penitentiary...
While leading a patrol, Captain Coolidge went to assist two observation planes which were being attacked by six German fighters. Observing this maneuver, the Germans on the ground filled the air with anti-aircraft fire. Disregarding the extreme danger, Captain Coolidge dived straight into the barrage and his plane was struck and sent down in flames...